adding veneer to pioneer hpm 100

[Vinyl Seance]

I always liked pioneer for its looks and good sound. I thought that the hpm's sounded great but always defaulted to the cs series because they had looks and alright sound ( but not as great as hpm's). I eventually folded in and got some hpm's and i love them to death and since i just recently scored a second pair off craigslist I am making them part of the main house rig ( Cs 99a's and cs 88a's are moving up to the office rig). I want to show off the speakers so no grill cloth but now i got the ugly painted black fiberboard to look at. Why did pioneer do this? Anyway im putting veneer on it then reinstalling speakers, i started tonight and i think its looking pretty cool.....i cant wait to put the polyurethane! Here are some picks...

 

[boatdrinks77]

looking very nice !!!!!! Dan

 

[DrumminDaddy]

:thmbsp::thmbsp::thmbsp:

 

[Vinyl Seance]

with poly.

 

[Guest113]

Nice job. :thmbsp:

 

[mdev]

Wow. That's a great Idea. I also have the HPM's and love them but the black is definitely an eye sore. I might have to add this to the project "list". Nice...

 

[wrbear]

Black can be a plus if you have black furniture in the media room like I do. mine look pretty good w/out the covers and in black. I agree though the covers off is a better look. Your look great!

 

[PioneerHPMLuver]

Nice work...sweet idea...I love my HPM-100's but have grown to dislike the aluminum visually. I have often thought of painting them flat black but never had the stones to do it...

 

[KutzlerTrans]

Now thats using your head. They look nice. My covers never seem to stay on.

Good Job:thmbsp:

 

[Vinyl Seance]

done!

looking sharp

 

[butch4695]

Nice job! I always liked the 100s . :thmbsp:

 

[kowalski]

Cool! How did you make the cuts on the veneer? Did you source it online? I'm likely going to have to reveneer mine altogether and have found a few suppliers... any advice for application of veneer?

 

[Keymaster]

Very nice!

I'm actually surprised I haven't seen anyone try this alteration, but I think it looks fantastic! Great job on those. :thmbsp:

 

[Stereofro]

Where did you get the veneer?

 

[lokerola]

Wow - great job! Same question as above - where did you get the veneer? Man, those look good.